“4. The Republicans just held a close-door vote to “nominate” their candidate for the House Speaker vote. Scalise won that vote, but he only got 113 votes in the process. 99 Republicans voted for Jim Jordan.”
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It what THAT I was referring to, the “close-door” vote!
They got their nominee didn’t they, right?
If we had republican gentlemen in the House, we would RESPECT that nomination.
Why do we organize a “close-door” vote if an hour later it’s not followed up upon anyway? We look like spoiled brats and fools. It’s a madhouse!
A Mad House.
It’s every man for himself. Republicans are incapable of honoring their own democratically-determined choice.
Go back to January 2015 when the House elected its Speaker after the 2014 elections. John Boehner got 216 votes, and was elected Speaker because only 205 were needed for a majority (only 408 House members voted).
Nancy Pelosi got 164 votes. There were 28 votes cast for people other than the two party nominees.
The only reason you’re seeing this dysfunction playing out now is that the GOP majority is so narrow that even a small group of fringe players has a lot of leverage to scuttle the whole process.
BTW, Jordan does NOT oppose aid to Ukraine. He thinks Russia must be stopped, but he also opposes aid without a definitive mission (goals) statement from Biden, and without better accounting of funds sent. He was very clear about this in a recent interview (might have been with Greta Van Susteren? There’s so much going on it’s hard to always remember who interviewed who!)
I want to see Pooty knocked back on his ass, and I can support Jordan’s position. I suspect 90% of Ukrainians would, too, especially when it comes to accountability.
P.S. It’s ironic that we have FReepers here who don’t “get” the connections between the war in Ukraine, and Iran’s role in barbarism in the ME.